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Microsoft Edge is the new, default web browser for Windows 10, helping you to experience modern web standards, better performance, improved security, and increased reliability. Microsoft Edge also introduces new features like Web Note, Reading View, and Cortana that you can use along with your normal web browsing abilities.

Microsoft Edge lets you stay up-to-date through the Microsoft Store and to manage your enterprise through Group Policy or your mobile device management (MDM) tools.

Microsoft Edge works with Group Policy and Microsoft Intune to help you manage your organization's computer settings.

Group Policy objects (GPO's) can include registry-based Administrative Template policy settings, security settings, software deployment information, scripts, folder redirection, and preferences. By using Group Policy and Intune, you can set up a policy setting once, and then copy that setting onto many computers. For example, you can set up multiple security settings in a GPO that's linked to a domain, and then apply all of those settings to every computer in the domain.

If you have specific web sites and apps that you know have compatibility problems with Microsoft Edge, you can use the Enterprise Mode site list so that the web sites will automatically open using Internet Explorer 11. Additionally, if you know that your intranet sites aren't going to work properly with Microsoft Edge, you can set all intranet sites to automatically open using IE11.

Using Enterprise Mode means that you can continue to use Microsoft Edge as your default browser, while also ensuring that your apps continue working on IE11.

Interoperability goals and enterprise guidance

Our primary goal is that your modern websites work in Microsoft Edge. To that end, we've made Microsoft Edge the default browser.

However, if you're running web apps that continue to use:

ActiveX controls

x-ua-compatible headers

<meta> tags

Enterprise mode or compatibility view to address compatibility issues

legacy document modes

You'll need to keep running them using IE11. If you don't have IE11 installed anymore, you can download it from the Microsoft Store or from the Internet Explorer 11 download page. Alternatively, you can also use Enterprise Mode with Microsoft Edge to transition only the sites that need these technologies to load in IE11. For info about Enterprise Mode and Edge, see Use Enterprise Mode to improve compatibility.

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